Comment # 12 on bug 955233 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Matthias Klostermair from comment #11)
> Sorry if i intervent with that now:
> 
> Should not Networkmanager notify the plugin instead the plugin checking
> Networkmanager?

???
What "plugin" are you talking about here?

The update applet gets notified by PackageKit. That's unrelated to
NetworkManager, except that PackageKit maybe asks NetworkManager about the
online state if NM is used. I don't know.

But how/why should NetworkManager by itself notify all other applications about
the network state, even if those applications are not even running?

Again, the problem (as I see it) here is that packagekitd is not even running
and therefore cannot see the network state and notify the applet that it
changed.

And the applet is just a simple frontend to PackageKit (packagekitd). It
doesn't interact with NetworkManager at all.